Amazon's listmania lists are a mixed bag, to be sure, but every once in a while one comes up that I just have to check, you know? Such was the case, just now, with a list by one psychodeathbunny. I mean... do I need to explain this? No.

Titled Self Help/Self Knowledge Books I Highly Recommend, the list contains 17 books, 15 of which I also highly recommend -- if you're stupid and think it'd be a good idea to get even more that way.

But what's Nancy Chodorow doing here? The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender is a heavy-duty, well respected and hugely influential book by one of the few (credible) psychoanalytic feminists. Of course, I haven't read it, but it's gotta beat The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You. Where'd I put my glocke? Ah here, thrive on this!

Plus, I guess I could hesitantly recommend The I Ching or Book of Changes, which I did read most of at one time or another, usually ripped on acid and pretending I could understand Word One. For instance: isolated through opposition, one sees one's companion as a pig covered with dirt, as a wagon full of devils. It told me if I waited long enough though, she would woo at the right time and that as one goes, rain falls; then good fortune comes. Yeah right. That was in 1981, and after waiting all that time and spending lots of money I wish I had now on fancy dinners and the usual sex fees, I've concluded that she is in fact a pig covered with dirt and a wagon full of devils. So much for fucking Chinese wisdom.

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